Post card / Bill, cradley heath

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Are bradney chain company still going are they on bcc ?

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just goggled them there still going

Bradney Our History Page

"The Cradley Heath Chain Makers"

Cradley Heath in 1890 was the centre of the chain making industry. Over 1000 tons of chain were made in the district each week, ranging from the smallest pendulum chain for grandfather clocks to huge ships"™ mooring cables. It was very much an industrial town of the Black Country "“ dirty, squalid and depressing, but prosperous.




This prosperity did not, however, reach as far as the chainmakers themselves. Every link of chain was made almost entirely by hand on the blacksmith"™s hearth and working conditions were, even for 1890, appalling. Earnings were virtually at subsistence level. Chronic hunger was commonplace. To scrape even a bare existence both men and women were obliged to work a twelve hour day, six days a week.




Women normally made the smaller chains, often operating their own hand bellows and tending infant offspring all at the same time. In the more advanced and larger forges older children or old men were regularly employed to power the mechanisms which supplied air blast to the fires. It was long, hard, physically exhausting labour and distinctly unhealthy.

Burns from the ever-present showers of sparks, dust and fumes from burning coke and extremes of temperature conspired with a woefully inadequate diet. In these circumstances the predilection towards alcohol is hardly surprising, the favoured tipple "Burton Returns" being beer returned as undrinkable by more fastidious customers. Living and working conditions were so pitifully poor that in 1896 a series of articles published in "Pearson"™s Magazine" referred to Cradley Heath chain makers as "The White Slaves of Britain".




These appalling circumstances were a direct result of the system. Chain making still largely remained a cottage industry. There were a number of large factories in general manufacturing heavy ships"™ chains and employing workers in their forges. Most of their production, however, still originated in the back-yard chain shops owned by their out-workers. Here a family, perhaps with one or two others, worked together, their livelihoods subject to the vagaries of trade and the goodwill of their employers. Wherever they worked, however, the method of payment was the same. The employer, or "master", paid a sum for chain produced, having first deducted the cost of the iron (which he supplied) and sums to cover provision of coke and possibly air blast. Workers in both factories and chain shops were effectively selling labour only. The masters used the services of "foggers" "“ middlemen (often women) who acted as go-betweens for a supposedly fixed commission.



In practice many foggers were patently dishonest, and the workers were the ones who suffered as a result of their fraudulent practices. Bradney Chain and Engineering Company Limited was established in 1890 by just such a family of out-workers in a Cradley Heath back-yard chain shop.

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is this the same company ?


THE LONDON GAZETTE, 21 JULY, 1925.

In the Matter of a Deed of Assignment for the benefit of creditors, executed on the 25th day of May, 1925, by ARTHUR BRADNEY, of Plantstreet, Old Hill, Staffordshire, Chain Manufacturer.

THE creditors of the above named, Arthur Bradney, who have not already sent in their claims, are required, on or before the 17th day of August, 1925, to send in their names and addresses, and the particulars of their debts or claims to me, the undersigned,

Frank Henry Albert Gittins, Chartered Accountant, of Priory street, Dudley, the Trustee under the said deed, or in 'default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any dividend that may be declared."” Dated this 17th day of July, 1925.
(153) F. H. A. GITTINS, Trustee.

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Probably this family Pete, they connect to me through Elizabeth Stringer and my Haynes family:-

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... ney-Family

They were Chainmakers from Mushroom Green, could well have moved the Business later on down into Plant Street which is not that far from St Lukes Church.

HTH Linell.

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bcc

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... ney-Family


so poss marriage

BRADNEY * Arthur WHITEHOUSE Rose H 1883 Quarry Bank, Christ Church West Midlands Dudley Register Office 016/002/118
BRADNEY * Arthur WHITEHOUSE Rosehananh 1883 Quarry Bank, Christ Church West Midlands Dudley Register Office 016/002/118

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poss back and to, to the states


Arthur
Surname: Bradney
Last Place of Residence: Old Hill, England
Date of Arrival: 15 Sep 1910
Age at Arrival: 49y
Ethnicity: England, English
Port of Departure: Liverpool
Port of Arrival: NY
Gender: Male
Marital Status: M
US Citizen:
Ship of Travel: Mauretania



Name: Arthur
Surname: Bradney
Last Place of Residence: Old Hill, England
Date of Arrival: 24 Apr 1914
Age at Arrival: 50y
Ethnicity: Gt. Britain, English
Port of Departure: Liverpool
Port of Arrival: New York
Gender: Male
Marital Status: M
US Citizen:
Ship of Travel: Mauretania

son same ship

Arthur
Surname: Bradney
Last Place of Residence: Old Hill, England
Date of Arrival: 24 Apr 1914
Age at Arrival: 25y
Ethnicity: Gt. Britain, English
Port of Departure: Liverpool
Port of Arrival: New York
Gender: Male
Marital Status: S
US Citizen:
Ship of Travel: Mauretania

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1891 meredith st, rowley regis

Arthur Bradney 30 chainmaker, dudley
Rosehannah Bradney 31
Williston M Bradney 7
Rosehannah Bradney 5
Arthur Bradney 2
rest rowley regis

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1901 Scholding Green Rd, Rowley Regis

Arthur Bradney 40 chainmaker
Rosannah Bradney 41
Millie Bradney 17 dressmaker
Rosannah Bradney 15 tailoress
Arthur Bradney 12 cradley heath
James Bradney 7
rest dudley wood

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arthur srn still in states ?


1911

Rosehannah Bradney 51 (married 28 kids 5,4,1 crosses out ?)
Arthur Bradney 22 chainmaker
Nelly Bradney 27 (hale on image) (married 6 kids 1,1,0,crossed out ?) dressmaker
Rosehannah Bradney 25
Walter Hale 6
all born cradley heath

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marriage

BRADNEY Millicent HALE Walter 1904 Dudley Register Office West Midlands Dudley Register Office DRO/023/190

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I pass the Bradney place most weeks ,still goin strong ,its down by Mushroom Green